48 min
Ep06: Richmond Heath - TRE Australia The Pilates Diaries Podcast
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- Fitness
Our guest on this episode is Richmond Heath, a long time Physiotherapist and Pilates teacher based in outer-eastern Melbourne, and coordinator of TRE Australia.
[01:20] Richmond describes his career choices and his body started to let him down. After Aboriginal studies, suicide prevention, meditation and Bowen therapy work he began teaching Pilates.
[03:22] Richmond worked at an “exercise factory”. He later began to realise there was a lot more depth to Pilates.
[05:30] First impression of Pilates – a money-making machine! Then he became aware there was a refinement in Pilates. He felt torn between the Physio Pilates model and traditional Pilates model.
[08:41] Shift to valuing quality and freedom of movement over core stability and the profound changes in his autonomic nervous system.
[14:10] Richmond reveals some of the challenges he faces with Pilates, how he avoids some of what he finds hard, that involves pain and discomfort.
[15:36] Richmond was attracted in to the depth of information about anatomy and movement sequencing.
[16:04] Richmond explains the difficulties he experienced, his working environment where deepening understanding wasn’t encouraged.
[17:08] Nearing burnout before discovering Tension and Trauma Release Exercises (TRE). The trauma informed model was transformative - to examine the why behind bracing, tightness and collapse, and bring body-mind together.
[23:36] TRE experienced as a “great liberation” - getting out of the way and letting his body fix itself. He distinguishes between looking at trauma from an external, psychosocial perspective versus looking at it from the level of the body – why his body was freezing or collapsing.
[28:57] The effects of COVID restrictions on access to movement and social interactions.
[30:16] Been Coordinator of TRE in Australia for 10 years; connections between TRE and spontaneous movement techniques in other cultures.
[33:37] Returning to Pilates world, educating movement teachers to reintegrate tremoring responses, rather than dismissing them – from a top-down, conscious mind approach to a bottom up, body approach.
[34:47] Unimaginable changes since beginning movement journey - becoming softer, less rigidity of mind, relationships.
[38:17] Vision to integrate neurogenic movement into Pilates, giving teachers extra layers to teaching.
[40:51] Tremoring before Pilates to remove tension patterns; used afterwards when body is tired and able to go into deeper level tremoring; used during Pilates can give profound healing.
[42:10] The effect of Pilates can be so much more than just a movement experience, can have a profound effect on relationships because of a better state in their physical body.
[43:30] Richmond has a free online course for listeners interested in exploring TRE.
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Our guest on this episode is Richmond Heath, a long time Physiotherapist and Pilates teacher based in outer-eastern Melbourne, and coordinator of TRE Australia.
[01:20] Richmond describes his career choices and his body started to let him down. After Aboriginal studies, suicide prevention, meditation and Bowen therapy work he began teaching Pilates.
[03:22] Richmond worked at an “exercise factory”. He later began to realise there was a lot more depth to Pilates.
[05:30] First impression of Pilates – a money-making machine! Then he became aware there was a refinement in Pilates. He felt torn between the Physio Pilates model and traditional Pilates model.
[08:41] Shift to valuing quality and freedom of movement over core stability and the profound changes in his autonomic nervous system.
[14:10] Richmond reveals some of the challenges he faces with Pilates, how he avoids some of what he finds hard, that involves pain and discomfort.
[15:36] Richmond was attracted in to the depth of information about anatomy and movement sequencing.
[16:04] Richmond explains the difficulties he experienced, his working environment where deepening understanding wasn’t encouraged.
[17:08] Nearing burnout before discovering Tension and Trauma Release Exercises (TRE). The trauma informed model was transformative - to examine the why behind bracing, tightness and collapse, and bring body-mind together.
[23:36] TRE experienced as a “great liberation” - getting out of the way and letting his body fix itself. He distinguishes between looking at trauma from an external, psychosocial perspective versus looking at it from the level of the body – why his body was freezing or collapsing.
[28:57] The effects of COVID restrictions on access to movement and social interactions.
[30:16] Been Coordinator of TRE in Australia for 10 years; connections between TRE and spontaneous movement techniques in other cultures.
[33:37] Returning to Pilates world, educating movement teachers to reintegrate tremoring responses, rather than dismissing them – from a top-down, conscious mind approach to a bottom up, body approach.
[34:47] Unimaginable changes since beginning movement journey - becoming softer, less rigidity of mind, relationships.
[38:17] Vision to integrate neurogenic movement into Pilates, giving teachers extra layers to teaching.
[40:51] Tremoring before Pilates to remove tension patterns; used afterwards when body is tired and able to go into deeper level tremoring; used during Pilates can give profound healing.
[42:10] The effect of Pilates can be so much more than just a movement experience, can have a profound effect on relationships because of a better state in their physical body.
[43:30] Richmond has a free online course for listeners interested in exploring TRE.
TRE Australia
Website
Facebook
The Pilates Diaries Podcast
Website
Facebook
Instagram
Episode Sponsors
TRIMIO
Pilates Reformers Australia
10% off with min. $100 spend - use PILATESDIARIES21
Whealthy-Life
10% off - use PILATESDIARIES
ToeSox Australia
15% off with min. $49 spend - use PILATESDIARIES21
48 min